Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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More than 50 percent of the largest lakes in the world are losing water, according to a groundbreaking CIRES-led assessment published in Science. The key culprits are not surprising: warming climate and unsustainable human consumption.

Read the story: https://cires.colorado.edu/news/satellites-reveal-widespread-decline-global-lake-water-storage

Read the paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo2812